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Quantum voting and violation of Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem

Speaker

Nicole Yunger Halpern(Caltech)

Event Type

QuICS seminar

Date & Time

March 20, 2015, 2:00pm

Where to Attend

CSS 3100A

We propose a quantum voting system in the spirit of quantum games such as the quantum Prisoner’s Dilemma. Our scheme violates a quantum analogue of Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem, which states that every (classical) constitution endowed with three innocuous-seeming properties is a dictatorship. Superpositions, interference, and entanglement of votes feature in voting tactics available to quantum voters but not to classical. (This work was conducted with Ning Bao. Reference: arXiv:1501.00458v1.)